The Two Counterintuitive Traits That Make Steve Jobs and Elon Musk Exceptional Leaders

It’s the night of November 9th, 2001. The iPod is launching the following morning. Steve Jobs, sits down with a model, plugs in the earphones and listens to a song…only something isn’t right.[1] Steve tries again, and though it functions, there is something about it he doesn’t like. So picks up his phone and calls […]

The CEO personality traits that could ruin your startup

GUEST: PR folks like us love startup founders: They’re motivated, ambitious, a little crazy, usually very smart, and sometimes just downright quirky. You can learn a lot about human nature by working for many different startup CEOs. But you’ll also notice some traits that can spell disaster — not just for the company’s PR efforts, […]

I’m an entrepreneur who’s hired over 50 freelancers — here are the 6 traits I look for

Alex Jasin I’ve had some bad experiences with freelancers. If you’ve worked with freelancers, you know it can be a crapshoot. You post a job, then hope the right person applies. Sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn’t. After having the process blow up in my face one too many times, I knew I needed […]

A psychologist reveals the 7 empathetic traits that exceptional leaders share

AFGE/Flickr Emotions are the universal language. The way the emotions are felt is the same in each of us. What triggers our emotion is individual, but if we can feel our own pain then we can know what it is like for another to feel their pain. Because of this projective identification, it allows us […]